Fermi question · Business
About how many packages per day did UPS deliver on average in 2025?
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≈ 20.8 million packages per day
Fermi estimates are judged by scale, so a reasonable approximation can still earn a strong score.
One way to estimate it
Scale from annual package volume to an operating-day average.
- Annual packages≈ 5.2 billion
- Operating days≈ 252
- Estimate5.2B ÷ 252 ≈ 20.6M packages/day
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